Democratic Memo On Roan Garcia Quintana

White Supremacist Serving on Nikki Haley’s Statewide Grassroots Steering Committee
Roan Garcia Quintana, Executive Director of the “Americans Have Had Enough Coalition” will be holding a press conference today with Sen. Tom Corbin and Rep. Mike Burns at the state house at 10am to oppose the S744, a federal immigration bill. A quick Google search will show that Mr. Garcia-Quintana is [...]

All Hail “Destructuring” In SC

For the last decade, reform-minded politicians in South Carolina have been pushing the notion of “government restructuring.” The idea is simple: To streamline government in such a manner that it costs less and works better.
Those two core goals – efficiency and accountability – ought to be at the heart of every proposal to restructure our [...]

SC House “Republicans” Fall Short On Fiscal Conservative Votes

FISCAL LIBERALS DOMINATE PALMETTO STATE’S “GOP-CONTROLLED” HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Last week we took a look at the abysmal scores recorded by “Republican” members of the S.C. Senate on the S.C. Club for Growth’s 2012 legislative scorecards. This week we look at the scores put up by the S.C. House of Representatives – which is also controlled (in [...]

2012: The “Lost Cycle”

SC “REFORM” MOVEMENT ON ITS DEATHBED
For those of you who haven’t noticed, this website hasn’t exactly been chomping at the bit to endorse candidates in the 2012 legislative elections here in South Carolina.
Why not? Because this year’s election is a total farce … and that was true long before the S.C. Supreme Court tossed more [...]

SC Club For Growth Endorses Six Candidates

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Phillip Cease
803-454-1134
June 7, 2010
South Carolina Club for Growth PAC Endorses Six More Candidates
COLUMBIA, SC -Today, South Carolina Club for Growth PAC announced their next endorsements for the 2012 primary season.
“Next week South Carolinians will go to the polls to choose the candidates for November. For too long candidates and incumbents have claimed [...]

Letter: Kincannon On G-Vegas Senate Drama

RE: Somers, Shoopman, Corbin, Etc.
Dear Friends in the SCGOP:
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen many of you. Far too long, quite frankly. Lately I’ve spent most of my time building my law practice. But as with each of you, Republican Party politics is never far from my heart.
Yesterday I received a call from [...]

Somers, Shoopman, Corbin Etc.

Over the weekend, FITS broke the news that S.C. Sen. Phil Shoopman (R-Greenville) had decided not to seek reelection in 2012.
(Yes, we break news on the weekends).
Shoopman’s decision prompted the SCGOP to announce that it was reopening filing for his State Senate seat for a forty-eight  hour period beginning at noon on Monday. That decision [...]